rare format sighting :: BotB Academy

38615

each wednesday i will host an OHB of the least recently used format on battle of the bits. participation will holistically improve your value as a human being in ways you had previously thought impossible.

the next format will be: SUNVOX at 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC

prepare yourselves.

38618

Jangler, I've killed many pandas, but I can't figure out how I'm supposed to get a tune out of this.

38638

Relinking here because I got lost in the academy for 10min before I found this http://lemonade.dnsalias.net/panda_tracker_pre6.rar

38640

Here's a newer one:

http://lmao.rotfl.at/upload/setrodox/pandatracker_pre8.zip

38709

Holy shit, I thought Pandatracker was lost forever :o

38713

oh nice i only have pre6 myself

38718

any documentation

like, at all

38719

PandaTracker was the effort of long lost BotBr and demoscene member setrodox. Alex "setrodox" made PandaTracker with the intentions of designing the easiest most intuitive tracker for the non-tracker user to learn and design music without instrument creation. It could have also been used for sketching ideas. PandaTracker is a dead project and will not ever be revived unless someone decides to code something like it from scratch. Last I heard from setrodox himself the code was lost. I've not heard from him in a very long time and also suspect him to have exit stage lefted. ;)

38720

o_o

I thought I was up for a TIA sighting!

38721

i've seen a tia ohb these days, so it's not the least recently used format
wait a few weeks tho and there might be one ;)

38725

also pandatracker is really easy to use, i figured it out in no time

38726

Pandas are cute :3

38727

Okay, if all's well for my timezone, I guess I might give it a shot.

Who knows, maybe we'll have badges with a cuuuute panda, ay?

38775

Thanks for the invite.

I am recharging during that time, so will not be able to make it, unfortunately.

However, I am interested in checking out PANDA sometime.

38777

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HOST MORE GAMEBOY OHB PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE

38785

Im sure there is gonna be Fsound and SVG before Gameboy comes up. Jangler, are you counting major formats as well? Or only formats in OHBs?

38792

http://pastie.org/private/w1tbeegrwes9cv1ylsnhw

in other words, it's the battle result time of the most recent entry in each format that counts, whether it's an OHC entry or a major entry

39134

ive been wanting to do a gameboy ohb as well actually. time to pester admins until i get my badge 5 years later

39160

*puts hand over mouth*
ksssht
T-minus one hour fifteen minutes
until operation bamboo explosion
kssssshhhht
roger that
*runs away flailing arms*

39161

Fuck timezones

39166

next week is ntrq. hopefully we can at least double the amount of ntrq entries on botb in one fell compo

39654

That's 23:00 on my clock. Damn, now I'm really considering to make my entry... in advance! D=

39655

but thatd be against the concept of an ohb i think

39656

what the fuck is NTRQ

39657

[13:02] <SketchMan3> 7:00 PM EST Wednesday's I'm away from home at that time every week :(((
[13:02] <SketchMan3> no rare format sighting for me :(((
[13:09] <SketchMan3> jangler... man... do you think you can push the ahx rare format sighting compo back two hours?
[13:09] <SketchMan3> or a day?

I guess that would not be fair to fulfill my request I but I had to ahx anyway.

39658

MKSTAR: Native 2a0x tracker by Neil Baldwin.

http://nes-audio.com/

39660

time is negotiable. maybe i'll make some sort of survey so people who are interested can say what times work for them?

39661

so only people with an NES can do this

okay

39662

presumably it works in an emulator

39663

That's a good idea.

Also, it lets me to avert cheating and actually makes me train the darn thing. :D

39664

It'd be difficult to submit the savestate if you were doing it on a real NES.

39667

Indeed, but we're all using emulators here, so what the fuck.

Also, I suppose it'd really be difficult if we weren't doing that on flash carts. :c

39669

rip setrodocks u were a friend to pandas

ROOF

39670

http://doodle.com/waw3ifannkniqvsb

if you want to participate in the upcoming ntrq battle, you can indicate your availability here

edit: survey closed. it'll be 21:00 EST

39672

Don't let me miss an SVG compo!!

39673

Finally, a compo that uses the NES chip

>:O

39674

Using an emulator gives the freedom to choose between NTSC and PAL. Which one would be better? (does it matter?)

39909

bump for fsound! doodle @ http://doodle.com/8dvv34585h4tw44e#table

edit: doodle closed. it's midnight UTC.

39918

where can i even get fsound
the link at the lyceum doesnt work, for me at least

39924

~*~ the magic and the mystery ~*~
~*~ of rare format sighting ~*~

39929

If fsound is lost forever........then there's always this?

http://shiru.untergrund.net/temp1/flsound.swf

39935

Yeah, I myself have absolutely no clue where to get fsound, if at all...

39970

NTRQ was too advanced for my n00b-being :-( Also, the rare format battling is too much in-the-middle-of-the-week-in-the-middle-of-the-night for me (I do appreciate the effort made with pinning a good time!). Still, would like to have a look at fsound but as mentioned above: links do not work and googling is not helping much either.

39972

a source named ant1, who shall remain unnamed, told me that null1024 might have a copy of fsound. trying to get a hold of him

39974

If he'd be so kind in forging any instruction material too, that would be rad :)

40011

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qxvdv4 fsound.zip

could it be added to the ftp, my dcc is borked atm.

40014

Ah, looks super fun! nice easy interface ;D

40016

i'm sorry i did this https://gist.github.com/Jangler/9565970

40018

http://puu.sh/7w77L.png Oh, okay

40022

i've voted on the poll
wait what even is fsound

40030

the lyceum is your friend

40161

next is html! you know the drill: http://doodle.com/2sif9zpn9hpb6k4e

edit: poll closed. it's 23:00 UTC.

40433

bump for mod32k (see original post)

40582

bump for me skipping all the mod*k formats and making this week's format channelf instead

40583

mod*k formats are boring anyway

40591

I think they should be included, but possibly space them out sot hey aren't in a clump.

40627

The only mod*k format that I find interesting is mod8k. But that's not really a rare format, unfortunately... Btw, what happens once all the rare formats are through? Repeat the experiment until they're not rare anymore?

Also, b00daW, r u ever gonna update sleizsa again? Needs polyphony ;)

40629

If we did this indefinitely, if a format is only ever hosted on the weekly rare formats it'll only come up a few times a year. That's still pretty rare I think.

40633

more common than not at all though

40635

irrlicht: i keep flirting with the idea and other ideas. we'll see...

40636

oi! got bleeps!

Just wondering if there won't be a problem when everybody submits "song.inc" as that would be the easiest/laziest way to run the batch file.

And is there any elegant way to end? I have to manually delete the .bin file it seems?

40637

Most if not all people have submitted a .bin in the past for Channel F compos.

That's what I'd recommend. :P The .inc is the source file which you can share later if you feel like being nice~

40638

ok, still the situation persists; how to vote between song.bin, song.bin and song.bin?

Or am I seeing nonexistent problems?

40639

The bin files are all named differently, just like this compo: http://battleofthebits.com/arena/OHC/1139/

You should rename song.bin when you submit of course. :P

40708

poll closed; channelf at 18:00 EDT / 22:00 UTC

40715

okay i just figured this out because im dumb and maybe most of you have but make sure when playing the bin files you either rename to song.bin or change the filename in the main.asm file!!!!!!!!

40740

No man, you're just n00b, like me!

Just found out that rests (the valid ones from 1 to 64, syntax #r) have to be even as well as note durations.
edit: not just even but regular euh 4/4 durations (I'm even more n00b on music theory) so 1,2,4,8,16,32,64

And I sometimes get compile errors when I'm not indenting "pattend".

40801

is it time for the svg-off now :^)

40803

actually, YES

40805

Aaaaaaand I don't see the first post updated, at that matter! =o

40811

now it is!

40820

I'll assume it'll have the same rules as before - no SVG code generators (e.g. Illustrator), text editors and handwritten XML only?

40825

yup. that seems to be the precedent so i'll make sure to specify so in the bitpack

40927

Not sure if I can partake this time. Busy this week, no time to practise a bit and can only joind when hosted early :/ Looks like a nice nasty format ;-) drawing with xml wtf hahaha

40983

poll closed; SVG will be at 8 pm EDT tonight!

40985

it's....too......late.... :'-(

And I'm soooo in the mood for making something ugly <Insert fav Fightclub scene with blondie> }:-( (not because of not being able to join the rare format ohb, that was to be expected, but just....seen too many stupid people in 2 hours)

Looking forward to the entries :)

41014

So, whazz next? TIA?

41016

sunvox! http://doodle.com/4rartd62u74iqi5f

(poll closed, it's at 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC)

41294

officially passing the RFS torch to kfaraday!